Questions tagged [glue]
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Why are the zero stretch and shrink in the definition of \z@skip explicit?
Why do both The TeXbook and latex.ltx define \z@skip=0pt plus0pt minus0pt? Wouldn't \z@skip=0pt or perhaps \z@skip=0pt\relax be shorter and yield the same? I always thought that the stretch and shrink are zero by default.
user224332
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How is glue calculated?
Consider the following example:
\tracingonline=1
\hfuzz=10000pt
\setbox0=\hbox spread-1pt{a. b}
\showbox0
\setbox0=\hbox{a.b}
\showthe\wd0
\end
The output is:
> \box0=
\hbox(6.94444+0.0)x16.77782, glue set - 1.0
.\tenrm a
.\tenrm .
.\glue 4.44444…
Igor Liferenko
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How to glue center environment to the trailing text?
After getting the solution to my first problem thanks to egreg, I have came across the second one: very often I am in a situation when I want that the center environment is glued (no page break) to the trailing text, something like…
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How to glue center environment to the text?
I have very often a situation when I want that the center environment is glued to the preceding text, something like that:
Some text
%
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}
some commands
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{center}
Is it possible to make a general…
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What does a negative length with "minus" *negative constant* mean?
We continue Semantics of negative glues here, however, with more concrete values instead of fill. I've just discovered an earlier code
\vspace{-.56\baselineskip plus.1\baselineskip minus-.1\baselineskip}
of myself inside a macro. I left no…
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